Hope Hodge Seck

Hope Hodge Seck is an award-winning investigative and enterprise reporter who has been covering military issues since 2009. She is managing editor for Military.com.

Hope’s previous assignments have included a war zone embed in Afghanistan with Marines and multiple reporting trips aboard amphibious ships and aircraft carriers. Her awards include multiple North Carolina Press Association Honors, the 2015 and 2017 Marine Corps Heritage Foundation Heinl awards for feature writing, the Military Reporters and Editors Association 2015 award for domestic military coverage, and the 2016 American Legion 4th Estate Award for print reporting. She is also a member of the board of directors at the Military Reporters and Editors Association.

A graduate of The King's College in New York City, her work has also appeared in Marine Corps Times, Newsweek, USA Today, The New York Sun, and World Magazine.

Email: hope.seck@military.com

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Courtland Savage from early in his training. (Courtesy Courtland Savage)

Navy to Change Pilot Call Sign Protocol After Minority Aviators Report Bias

The head of naval aviation has directed the creation of a new process for approving and reviewing pilots' call signs.

A Mojave Desert Tortoise rests near some beaver-tail cactus flowers aboard Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, California, on April 15, 2019. (Photo courtesy of Tim Brust)

At Marine Base, Officials Must Protect Endangered Tortoises from Murderous Ravens

Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow is now the site of a pitched and bloody ongoing battle between species.

The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) transits the Suez Canal on May 9, 2019. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Dan Snow)

Carrier Lincoln Enters Red Sea After Speeding Up Transit to Middle East

The move came after U.S. officials said they were dispatching a show of military strength in response to threats from Iran.

The Army fires a Naval Strike Missile from a Palletized Load System truck, hitting a decommissioned ship at sea, 63 miles north of Kauai, in July 2018 as part of the monthlong Rim of the Pacific Exercise. David Hogan/AMRDEC WDI

Marine Corps Gets Long-Range Missile to Take Out Enemy Ships

The Naval Strike Missile will be fired from a truck in upcoming experiments.

Vice President Mike Pence speaks to the media after a speech aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman at the Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Va., Tuesday, April 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Conservative Leaders Defend Navy Master Chief over 'Strip Club' Remark

Command Master Chief Jonas Carter, who tendered his resignation, is getting support from political and media figures.

Guided-missile destroyer USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) pierside in Pearl Harbor during a port visit, April 4, 2019. (U.S. Navy/Mass Communications Specialist 2nd Class Jonathan Jiang)

Navy's Futuristic Mega-Destroyer Tests New Weapons

Weapons testing is now in full swing for the Navy's new Zumwalt class of giant guided-missile destroyers.

Command Master Chief Jonas Carter poses for a photo after donating to the Navy and Marine Corps Relief Society during a fundraiser kickoff aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman. (U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Joseph A.D. Phillips/Released)

Navy Leader Who Told Sailors to 'Clap Like We're at a Strip Club' Has Resigned

Command Master Chief Jonas Carter stepped down from his position as the ship's senior enlisted leader and will retire.

A Landing Craft Air Cushion transports a 7-ton truck from shore back to USS San Diego (LPD 22), July 17, 2017. (U.S. Marine Corps/Cpl. Timothy Valero)

Marines' Next Ship-to-Shore Connector Could Be 3D Printed

A new solicitation asks industry to develop a boat or barge that can transit from ship to shore or from one shore to another.

Raytheon’s sea-based Excalibur N5 projectile will more than double the maximum range of conventional 5-inch munitions and provide the same accuracy as the land-based version. (Photo: U.S. Department of Defense)

Navy Test-Fires Ship Variant of Army's Excalibur Precision Artillery Shell

The Navy conducted a ground test of a precision-guided projectile the Army fires from cannons, manufacturer Raytheon said.

Vice President Mike Pence speaks to sailors aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman at the Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Va., Tuesday, April 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Vice President Pence: Trump Will Save Carrier Truman from Early Retirement

Pence paid a visit to the carrier to deliver a message from the president: The Truman will stay open for business.

U.S. Marine Maj. Gen. David J. Furness, commanding general of 2nd Marine Division, gives his remarks during the 2nd Marine Regiment change of command ceremony on Camp Lejeune, N.C., Jan. 18, 2019. (U.S. Marine Corps photo/Antonia E. Mercado)

2nd Marine Division CO Regrets How He Rolled Out Stringent New Routine. But He's Not Backing Down

Since his policy letter dropped, Furness has been called a micromanager, obsessed with the minutiae of personal grooming.

Task Force Guantanamo conducted a change of command ceremony welcoming incoming commander Rear Adm. John C. Ring and bidding farewell to outgoing commander, Rear Adm. Edward B. Cashman here, Tuesday, April 17, 2018. He was relieved of command April 27, 2019 due to loss of confidence in his ability to command. (Jerry Saslav/U.S. Army)

Guantanamo Bay Admiral Fired Due to Loss of Confidence

Rear Adm. John Ring has been commander of Joint Task Force-Guantanamo since April 2018.

Army Identifies Soldier Who Died in Iraq

Spc. Ryan Riley, 22, died in Ninawa province, Iraq.

U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion 2, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, pick up trash during the monthly Single Marine Program base cleanup on Camp Lejeune, N.C., Feb. 28, 2019. (U.S. Marine Corps/Lance Cpl. Samuel Lyden)

More Discipline, Less Bleeding: General Defends Controversial New Policy

Furness said he had repeatedly observed that the most disciplined units were the ones who fared best in combat.

FILE -- U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Christopher N. Kinsey gives his remarks during the CNATT change of command ceremony, Marine Corps Air Station New River, June 9, 2017. (U.S. Marine Corps/Lance Cpl. Austin M. Livingston)

Marine Aviation Training Unit Commander Fired

The commanding officer of a North Carolina-based aviation training unit has been relieved of his command, the Navy said.

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Coast Guard News

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